Improved Funding

01.02.2010

Helsinki – The Academy of Finland is restructuring its funding instruments. The purpose of the reform, which will be finalised in fall 2010, is to give greater clarity and flexibility to Finnish researchers, and to improve the effectiveness and impact of the Academy’s research funding.

The vaccine research centre of the University of Tampere in Finland has out­licenced a candidate combined prophylactic vaccine against norovirus and rota­virus infections. The Japanese vaccine venture UMN Pharma Inc. acquired the...

Finnish protein manufacturer Vectron Biosolutions AS has completed a study comparing different expression technologies. According to Vectron, their proprietary E. coli expression technology gave higher yields for seven out of ten...

Helsinki/Göttingen – Finnish laboratory supplier Biohit Oyj has sold its liquid handling business for €68m to German process and labtech provider Sartorius AG. Osmo Suovaniemi, founder and Chairman of the Board at Biohit,...

Bresso/Turku – The wedding's off between Newron and Biotie. The bride has run away. Shares in Italy's Newron Pharmaceuticals plunged after its proposed merger with Biotie Therapies Corp was called off by the Finnish firm....

Turku/ Bresso – It is both good and bad news for the Italian biotechnology sector: Finnish Biotie Therapies ASA has signed an agreement to acquire Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A. for €45 million. On the down side, Italy loses one...

Helsinki – Finnish researchers are likely to have identified the mutation that drives tumorigenesis in millions of women suffering from uterine leiomyomas (fibroids). The benign tumours, which are the most common medical reason...

Hafnarfjodur – Actavis Group CEO Claudio Albrecht announced at the beginning of February that the company may go public within the next 2-3 years, although it isn’t clear whether the generics manufacturer would conduct an IPO,...

Helsinki/Toronto – Induced pluripotent stem cells from a patient’s own cells must be screened for genetic failures before any clinical use, new research from Finnish and Canadian researchers suggest. In Nature the researchers...

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